Exercise 11 Using Statistics to Describe a Study Sample
1. What demographic variables were measured at least at the interval level of measurement? Demographic variables that are measured at the interval level are age, income (), length of labor (hrs), return to work (wks), number of hours working per week.
2. What statistics were used to describe the length of labor in this study? Were these appropriate? The statistics used to describe the length of labor in this study descriptive, they were mean and standard deviation. These are appropriate as they both can be calculated at the interval level of measurement.
3. What other statistic could have been used to describe the length of labor? Provide a...